4065: Plan to Fail in Order to Succeed by Lea Genders on Burnout Prevention

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Self-improvement, Mental Health, Education, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 28 June 2026

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 4065: Lea Genders reframes failure as an essential part of personal growth, showing how lasting behavior change comes from learning through setbacks rather than striving for perfection. By embracing small improvements, increasing self-awareness, and treating mistakes as feedback, she illustrates how sustainable success is built one imperfect step at a time. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://www.leagendersfitness.com/news/2017/10/21/9xyihrt2zhfobdcb7yi49g3ez4hexy Quotes to ponder: "Failure is feedback." "If you aren't failing, you probably aren't trying to learn, grow or improve in life." "The people that are the most successful are the people who have failed the most, because they keep trying, moving forward and learning when faced with setbacks." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Optimal Living Daily, Plan to Fail to Fail to Fail in Order to Succeed by Leah Genders of
0:07.4	Leagenders Fitness.com, and I'm Justin Mollick. This is the show where I read to you kind of like an
0:13.3	audiobook, but on Sundays, I share an episode from another podcast where we read to you, and today's
0:19.3	comes from my brother's show, Optimal Health
0:21.7	Daily. So with that, let's get right to the bonus episode as we optimize your life.
0:30.8	Plan to fail in order to succeed by Leah Genders of Leendersfitness.com.
0:39.4	How does that saying go?
0:42.0	When you fail to plan, you plan to fail?
0:43.7	Yeah, I like that one,
0:46.7	but I also think that you need to plan to fail in order to succeed.
0:48.7	We often think about failure
0:50.3	is something we want to avoid.
0:52.4	Who wants to fail at something after all? Failure sucks,
0:55.7	but failure is a part of the learning and growing process. If you aren't failing, you probably
1:01.9	aren't trying to learn, grow, or improve in life. I often run into this with my nutrition
1:07.5	clients as they go through the program. A common sentiment is,
1:11.0	I didn't do what I was supposed to do last week. I feel like a failure. It's a great opportunity
1:16.7	to remind you that failure is part of the process. Behavior changes are hard. No one decides to
1:23.4	eat healthier, to start working out or change bad habits, and then immediately changes their
1:28.3	whole life. It just doesn't work like that. No one reads one article on the internet, goes to one
1:34.3	exercise class, or enrolls in one nutrition course, and instantly changes all their bad behaviors.
1:40.7	Change is hard. It takes time and practice, and it's never linear. A lot of times, you have to fail
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